Senior Immunization Lead

The International Rescue Committee (IRC) responds to the world's worst humanitarian crises, helping to restore health, safety, education, economic wellbeing, and power to people devastated by conflict and disaster. Founded in 1933 at the call of Albert Einstein, the IRC is one of the world's largest international humanitarian non-governmental organizations (INGO), at work in more than 40 countries and 29 U.S. cities helping people to survive, reclaim control of their future and strengthen their communities. A force for humanity, IRC employees deliver lasting impact by restoring safety, dignity and hope to millions. If you're a solutions-driven, passionate change-maker, come join us in positively impacting the lives of millions of people world-wide for a better future.**Background:**The International Rescue Committee (IRC) responds to the world's worst humanitarian crises and helps people to survive, recover, and gain control of their future.We aim to make our programs a model for the highest global standards and to cultivate power and lasting change not just for our clients but for all people affected by humanitarian crises. To achieve that vision, the IRC’s Technical Excellence (TE) group, located within the Crisis Response, Recovery and Development (CRRD) Department, provides technical assistance to IRC’s country program staff and shares what we learn to influence policy and practice.IRC’s Technical Excellence team is comprised of five teams or sector “Units” which have deep expertise in their respective fields: Education, Economic Wellbeing, Governance, Health, and Violence Prevention and Response, as well as teams which provide measurement and finance/grant management support. Technical teams are also matrixed with a team that focuses on the quality and content of cross-sectoral programming in emergency responses.IRC’s Technical Excellence teams offer five core services to IRC country programs and the wider organization:* **1) Program Design**: We support country and regional teams to design state of the art programming, incorporating the best available evidence, cost data, and expertise of what has worked elsewhere, with the knowledge that country teams, partner organizations and our clients bring to the table.* **2) Quality Assurance**: We partner with our measurement teams to design and drive the use of indicators to measure progress towards outcomes; we partner with regional and country teams to review program delivery progress and help address implementation challenges and adapt interventions to changed circumstances.* **3) Business Development**: We partner within and outside the IRC to design winning bids and identify winning consortia; we deploy technical expertise in public events and private meetings to position IRC as a partner of choice.* **4) Research & Learning**: We partner with our research lab to design cutting edge research to fill evidence gaps, and with country teams to learn from implementation such that we continuously improve our future design and delivery.* **5) External Influence**: We showcase the IRC’s programs, technical insights and learning to influence and improve the humanitarian sector’s policy and practice.**Health Unit:**IRC’s health programs comprise the largest proportion of its overall program budget and are essential to both IRC emergency response and long-term programming worldwide.The Health Technical Unit is a dynamic team of more than 50 professionals in Primary Health Care, Sexual and Reproductive Health, Nutrition, Mental and Environmental Health. They provide IRC’s 30 plus country offices and emergency response team with world class technical expertise, capacity building and a cross country view of what works to achieve outcomes in terms of both evidence and practical experience. They also lead focused research agenda, influencing donor policy to support interventions and innovations proven cost effective to achieve positive change in people’s lives.The IRC’s organizational strategy – Strategy 100 - emphasizes that the IRC can best serve our humanitarian mission by expanding the scale of our impact through our most effective programs, with three enabling goals related to our people, influence and funding. Phase 2 (2026-2028) of Strategy 100Immunization is one of IRC’s four Impact at Scale strategies,

IRC has set the goal of IRC currently supports childhood immunization in 18 countries and implements several strategic immunization projects, including the Reaching Every Child in Humanitarian Settings (REACH) project consortium, led by the IRC. REACH is a $57 Million investment form Gavi, the vaccine alliance that aims to ensure immunization of children in settings where national immunization programs cannot provide services. Our Impact at Scale efforts include leveraging lessons from strategic investments and accelerate progress towards our Immunization I@Scale goal of reaching 1.5 Million children by 2028 living in conflict and crisis affected settings with routine childhood immunization care.**Job Overview:**The Senior Immunization Lead sits within the Health Unit and acts as the organizational leader for Immunization for the Crisis Response, Recovery and Development (CRRD) department. They are responsible for devising and leading strategies to raise the quality, impact, and scale of IRC’s Immunization programming.The Immunization Lead will ensure the scope, quality and relevance of global technical standards, including the generation and promotion of evidence in their technical area. The Immunization Lead will closely collaborate with Global Practice Lead for Primary Health Care, Regional Leads, PHC Technical Advisors, and Country Program’s Technical Coordinators in promoting technical best practice in CRRD programming. They will facilitate Technical Unit-led and high impact strategic business development by providing excellent technical insights and developing and maintaining strategic relationships and networks. In line with the Health Strategy and IRC’s Impact at Scale priorities, the Immunization Lead will lead strategic planning for the immunization programs. The Immunization Lead reports into the Global Practice Lead for Primary Healthcare and will oversee

strategic TU-led and multi-regional projects to ensure successful implementation of these projects, draw on the lessons from projects and additional learning initiatives to generate global evidence and best practice and support countries to adopt those practices.### **Major Responsibilities:*****Strategy, Program Design and Business Development**** Act as the organizational leader for CRRD in immunization internally and externally* Lead strategic direction and delivery planning for immunization in line with the organizational global strategy (both Strategy 100 and Health Strategy, and Immunization Impact @ Scale)* Responsible for identifying global areas of programmatic risk in immunization and elevating issues to Regional Leads and Health Unit leadership.* Collaborate with other leaders to promote integrated program designs within Health and across all IRC sectors that increase scale and deepen impact.* Lead Technical Unit led global business development for immunization and support strategic project level proposals.* Lead coordination with the awards management unit to drive fundraising from Public and Institutional donors and with other fundraising teams to drive fundraising from Private donors to meet Health Unit’s strategic priorities related to immunization.***Immunization within the Context of Conflict and Fragility Implementation Support**** Responsible for drawing on evidence-based best practice to provide technical oversight of IRC’s global technical standards, methodologies, and tools for immunization* Provide strategic guidance on designing and adapting immunization approaches that effectively reach under-served populations in conflict, displacement, and other fragile contexts, #J-18808-Ljbffr